Abstract
What is violence? By most authoritative accounts, violence, including school violence, is the use of physical force to cause harm. Physical force can take the forms of crimes against people or property (Kreiner, 1996). A student may spray graffiti on the side of a school, steal from someone’s purse or from the lunch line or injure another student, teacher, or faculty member. In reality, violence has become more prevalent in schools. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2002), Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2002, “in 2000, students ages 12 through 18 were victims of about 1.9 million total crimes of violence or theft at school. A national survey found that at least one out of five students and on
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